Update

Welcome to SHIP!

The next public Senate meeting will be March 19, 2015 @ 4 p.m. in CUB 119

Contact Us

For additional information or to schedule an appointment with any Student Senate member, please contact the office secretary at 717-477-1651, Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., by email
ljlaug@ship.edu or stop by our office located in CUB 201.

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President's Welcome

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I hope you all have had a Homecoming weekend to remember! To
begin with, I would like to say thank you for allowing me the privilege of
serving you all as your Student Senate President. I am both honored and humbled
to be elected to such a position by my fellow peers. I am a 21 year old senior
from Philadelphia, PA, with a dual major in Human Communications &
International studies, with a minor in Ethnic Studies. I was previously one of
the two Student Senators of the Multi-Student Affairs office, and from my years
as a student of SU this is what I have to say.

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Our University serves as a prelude for what we
will soon recognize as the “real world”. Shippensburg University is ours, and
so what we do hear lays the ground work for whatever we will do upon our
graduation. We are a community, and a community is a reflection of all of those
who preside in it. So who are we as a campus? Only we can define that. As students
of higher education, we are the future of the world, no matter what major or
field we belong to, everything that will be, shall be determined by us. And so
it is only right, that we began to write the future of our world, here at
Shippensburg. Step out and try something new, speak to someone whom you never
would have before, do something different and challenge the person who were
when you first walked into you dorm room, whatever amount of time ago. But,
more importantly we must do all of these things together.

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There
are many challenges that we are facing as a campus community, diversity,
retention, a changing world, etc., but we cannot sit and wait for anyone, faculty
or otherwise to fix them. We are always the change that we are looking for, as
we are our greatest resource. It is all of our responsibility to make our
institution a better place than it was when we got here. This in turn becomes a
habit, one that we will take with us long after we leave here, and translate to
how we will move post-graduation, in the broader society.

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Please, come to your Student
Senate. Bring with you your ideas and challenges. The Student Senate works for
you, and without your input, we have no authenticity. Our doors are open to
anyone and everyone, (and for those of you who don’t know where that is, it is
the CUB room 201, don’t be afraid to swing by). We will do new things to reach
out to you all, but in the meantime, seek out your senators, learn who represents
you, let them know what is on your
mind. We, as the Senate, will be taking
new approaches on how to serve as well as communicate with you. None of these
things will happen overnight, but nonetheless they will happen. I look forward to working with you all!